Official 2016 Renewal Thread - Page 215

Did you track it? When will you get it?

Yes, If everything goes well tomorrow.

Yay! fingers crossed for you!

There seems to be a misinterpretation on what I said before about the lost applications. The initial applications are scanned at the lockboxes (i.e where you send your application initially), uploaded to the your virtual USCIS profile, and then they are electronically transferred along with meta data pertaining to your application to the appropriate Service Center. The applications are then stored in blocks at the Service Center along with previous documents and biometrics data. This said block is the one that got corrupted and encompassed numerous application. But alas, they are recovering data and the applications from said block are trickling slowly but surely.I wish I knew more about the whole system but I'm limited to what I know. The least I can do for you guys is to bring some behind the scenes info at the madness that is going on at NSC.

If it's a tech issue, is there a point in contacting them to see what's going on with our applications? I'm assuming we have to wait for them to recover the corrupted data anyway unless they can somehow use the old application system

The problem, as any government office really, is communication. Even if you call and tell them to expedite your application, there is zero chance they are going to do anything because the only thing that they are going to see in their screens is a memo that only states that application from March to May are still being worked on. And to be honest, what do you expect when the whole USCIS back-end it's being overhauled by the lowest bidder. Trust me, my frustration gets bigger everyday by the stories I hear from this site with people losing their jobs because of a system's failure. I wish there was more accountability and flexibility from USCIS.

@ zeomax,

Do you have any inside information as to when they will start working on applications received the first week of April? I expire tomorrow.

Very interesting. Thanks for the info

I just called USCIS and they told me it might take a couple of weeks to receive my approval notice in the mail. And that after that I will receive my EAD. They don't even have a tracking number available for my EAD yet. My permit expires tomorrow, nbd. No sense of urgency whatsoever I guess I'll be out of work for who knows how long.

Sorry bro, I only know the technical side. If I know of anything else I will let you know. Sometimes statistics cannot account of force majeure of this magnitude.